"Another outsider from a new world?"
"I heard the wizards of that world are all descendants of gods."
"I looked into it. The Harry of that world supposedly awakened Zeus's bloodline. He was born with a lightning mark on his forehead and crushed the two venomous snakes Voldemort sent after him."
"So what if they're gods? They still can't surpass our World Tree."
The independent universe created and supported by the World Tree belonged to the kingdom of magical creatures. On Hogsmeade's beach, several local wizards watched outsiders emerge from pillars of light that appeared from time to time, chatting among themselves.
Their confidence was not arrogance.
In the neighboring Movie Harry world, another game of the Behind-the-Scenes God had ended.
Even Ron Weasley, who had returned from the four-wheel-drive world, become a transcendent who had broken free of fate's chains, exchanged for the Speed Force, and could move at speeds starting at a million times the speed of light, still could not surpass the World Tree.
By now, this Magical Kingdom had become the center of the multiverse.
Sometimes, simply going to the bathroom meant running into seven or eight Harry Potters of different ages.
Some were immune to magic and wielded swords; some commanded the Death Force; some cultivated Internal Energy; some had formed contracts with nature spirits; some had merged with the Philosopher's Stone by coincidence at the end of their first year and become magical versions of Superman.
There were simply too many versions of Harry, each with a different power system.
Of course, it was not only Harrys from across the multiverse who had arrived.
Many wizards had encountered their own variants.
Not long ago, the famous Remus Lupin had met a version of himself who was the reincarnation of Ares, the God of War,